Trial reportProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Influence of a COVID-19 vaccine's effectiveness and safety profile on vaccination acceptance.
Trial report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 123 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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123 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Effectiveness of Bacille Calmette-Guerin vaccination policies in reducing infection and mortality of COVID-19: a systematic review.Global health research and policy · 2022Pooled it
- Evaluation of the Acceptance Rate of Covid-19 Vaccine and its Associated Factors: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review of vaccine-induced thrombotic thrombocytopenia in individuals who received COVID-19 adenoviral-vector-based vaccines.Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis · 2022Pooled it
- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of COVID-19 Vaccination Acceptance.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Pooled it
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- Encouraging COVID-19 vaccination via an evolutionary theoretical approach: A randomized controlled study in Japan.Patient education and counseling · 2022Trial
- A randomized controlled trial of a video intervention shows evidence of increasing COVID-19 vaccination intention.PloS one · 2022Trial
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- Vaccine acceptance in a future pandemic after COVID-19 and its decision drivers in Japan.NPJ vaccines · 2026Article
- Partisan differences in healthcare decision-making: Evidence from a vaccine experiment.PloS one · 2026Article
- The use of recommended vaccinations among patients with chronic diseases in relation to attitudes toward vaccination and anxiety levels.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Observational
- Factors associated with COVID-19 vaccine brand preferences in the United States.Atlantic journal of communication · 2025Article
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- Vaccination Coverage Covid-19 and Self-Reported Adverse Post-Vaccination Events in Mbuji-Mayi, DR Congo.Infection and drug resistance · 2025Article
- How urban versus rural population relates to COVID-19 booster vaccine hesitancy: A propensity score matching design study.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Article
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- COVID-19 vaccine refusal is driven by deliberate ignorance and cognitive distortions.NPJ vaccines · 2024Article
- Novel multi-cluster workflow system to support real-time HPC-enabled epidemic science: Investigating the impact of vaccine acceptance on COVID-19 spread.Journal of parallel and distributed computing · 2024Article
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Abstract
Although a safe and effective vaccine holds the greatest promise for resolving the COVID-19 pandemic, hesitancy to accept vaccines remains common. To explore vaccine acceptance decisions, we conducted a national survey of 1,000 people from all US states in August of 2020 and a replication in December of 2020. Using a 3 × 3 × 3 factorial experimental design, we estimated the impact of three factors: probability of 1) protection against COVID-19, 2) minor side effects, and 3) a serious adverse reactions. The outcome was respondents' reported likelihood of receiving a vaccine for the coronavirus. Probability of vaccine efficacy (50%, 70%, or 90%) had the largest effect among the three factors. The probability of minor side effects (50%, 75%, 90%) including fever and sore arm, did not significantly influence likelihood of receiving the vaccine. The chances of a serious adverse reaction, such as temporary or permanent paralysis, had a small but significant effect. A serious adverse reaction rate of 1/100,000 was more likely to discourage vaccine use in comparison to rates of 1/million or 1/100 million. All interactions between the factors were nonsignificant. A replication following the announcement that vaccines were 95% effective showed small, but significant increases in the likelihood of taking a vaccine. The main effects and interactions in the model remained unchanged. Expected benefit was more influential in respondents' decision making than expected side effects. The absence of interaction effects suggests that respondents consider the side effects and benefits independently.
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